Poetry

 Your child took his/her poems home last week and should be working on memorizing one.  The poems will be presented in class on Tuesday, September 25.  In order to earn 100% your child needs to do the poem with actions, bring a prop, or share his/her favorite line. 

Swinging

I start my swing very soft and slow,

With just enough push to make it go

Then I hurry it up, till I'm going so fast

That the leaves on the trees go rushing past.

I swoop down low, so close to the ground

That I see the June bugs crawling around,

And then so high, so far, and so free

That even the east wind can't catch me.

~Marchette G. Chute

The Rhinoceros

The Rhino is a homely beast,

For human eyes he's not a feast,

But you and I will never know

Why Nature chose to make him so

Farewell, farewell, you old rhinoceros,

I'll stare at something less prepoceros.

~Ogden Nash

An Autumn Riddle

They are seen on the trees,

They are seen on the ground.

They are seen in the air,

Whirling softly around;

They sing rustling songs

As our footsteps they hear,

And their name is well known,

For they come every year.

~Anonymous